© Web site designed and maintained by Peter Smith
Email: info@kesarchive.com
This web site is intended as a focus for all those people who have attended or have been involved with King Edmunds School in Yate over the years since its beginnings in 1966. The intentions are simple. To collect together and publish all those photos and pieces of memorabilia concerning our days at the school. Just think of all those school trips to Cowley Manor, Forest of Dean, Austria and Germany when we all used our little Instamatics to record the event or perhaps wrote a trip diary for mum and dad to read when we got home. Isn’t it about time that all those forgotten photos and documents locked away in your loft for years without seeing the light of day were all collected together and made available to everyone who shared the King Edmunds experience?
To this end I have created this web site in the hope that ex pupils will allow their treasures to be scanned and displayed. I have started the process off with a few of my own photos which I hope to expand upon when I manage to find them amongst all the family junk now overloading our own loft. If you have a scanner then of course you can “do it yourself” and email them to me for inclusion. It seems the best compromise on size and quality is to scan photos for 5 inch print size at 200 dpi; saved in jpeg format. Printed or hand written documents only need to be 150 dpi.
I would like to include any memories or reminiscences that you may also like to send.
I have included on the Arzl trip page a pop song that was a hit at the time in Austria called Mendecino by The Sir Douglas Quintet. It was always playing everywhere we went during out ten days or so, but I never heard it played anywhere back in the UK. That tune always takes me back to those summer days of 1969 and that little village of Arzl.
I’ve also reproduced under “Reunion” the little pamphlet that was distributed to all at the time of the 21st reunion in 1987. It contains some interesting pieces from some teachers and Nigel Woodford.
Please email me at info@kesarchive.com with your submissions or perhaps to arrange for me to scan the items for you.
Anything of relevance you wish to send will be gratefully received.
Hopefully over time we will be able to build a unique and valued collection.
Pete Smith